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Continue reading →: Socialists redacting history (at the taxpayers’ expense)
Margaret Thatcher airbrushed from Harriet Harman's history of women in politics – Telegraph. The most significant elected woman in British political history does not merit a name check in an "Equality Office" taxpayer-financed propaganda sheet paper called "Women in Power: Milestones." Doesn't this tell you all you need to know…
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Continue reading →: Old Tom’s Destiny…
…is to be claimed by right and left. It’s always idiocy, of course, to judge a historical figure’s views by the standards of today. He had ideas about social security and land tax, which might not have worked out as well as his ideas about liberty, but he hated tyranny…
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Continue reading →: If it’s the right thing, why don’ t they tell the families?
One in four relatives 'not told when doctors place patient on controversial death pathway' – Telegraph. My title seems a fair question to me. Concealing an action suggests (but I agree does not prove) that one feels it's wrong. More scarily; The audit also found that more than one in…
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Continue reading →: The truth is out there (preceded by “not”)
BBC NEWS | UK | Paedophile checks scheme defended. The British state says that 11 million people must be certified and logged by a state authority before they can safely be allowed to give their children's friends a lift to the swimming pool. This is as offensive (and revealing) a…
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Continue reading →: British values – just what are they?
This is a guest post by renowned blogger James Higham and is cross-posted at his usual home: Nourishing Obscurity. There’s an interesting group called Nothing British and the words I liked in their blurb were: We believe in addressing the concerns of those people who feel alienated from their society…
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Continue reading →: The aftermath of 9/11
September 11 attacks – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This is the anniversary of the day that had even the French saying "we are all Americans now." I remember a baffled Polish colleague coming into my office in Warsaw with the news. I remember waiting to hear if colleagues in the…
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Continue reading →: Nemo dat quod non habet
Alex Salmond promises British citizenship if Scotland becomes separate nation – Telegraph. I support the SNP's campaign for Scottish independence. I have even been known to send Mr Salmond's party a donation. More English people now support Scottish independence than Scots. Let's face it. We have not heard a friendly…
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Continue reading →: Write your own epitaph
nourishing obscurity: [rip] compose your own epitaph. James Higham is asking his readers to compose their own epitaph today, which is an interesting idea. More controversially, he's inviting them to compose epitaphs for his regular community of commenters. This is how I would like to be remembered. Why not head…
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Continue reading →: Britiblog 238: The end of the Summer hols version
Suz Blog: Britiblog 238: The end of the Summer hols version.A catholic selection from Suz. Enjoy.
THE LAST DITCH
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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